Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-07

lie" DalrOoms. The Old was q bar across
one end with few chairs scatt red around
The room. where farmers gathered at nights
10 roast tn if shins ard take an occasional
drink. he new-fashloned is thoroughly
lated to catch boys. There are elegant
costly paintings, free lunches and music.
Going down Clark street in Chicago, 1
heard some one singing in saloon, 90
Happy Day that Fixed My Choice the
fayorite song my mother used to sing; and
II had been boy in strange city
would have gone into that saloon to see
who was singing such q song i'll such a
place. In this State the Leg stature at the
last session put in the music to make them
more attractive to our boys, and when the
music fails they add the attraction of
farmers girls, who are advertised for for
light and profitable employment-wh
means only the attraction to lead the boys
of city fathers 10 destruction. The time was
when there We're liquor dealers who would
not sell liquor on Sunday, to minors or
drunkards; but that day has passed and the
men engaged in it are banded together to
trample all laws under their feet. Officials
dare not offend these men by seeking to
punish them them, and the citizen dare not
enforce the law, or if he dare he dares it at
the peril Of his property, his business, if
not his life. Is this too strong? Standing
by the dead body of Watson d. Smith, Of
Omaha, murdered because he sought to
enforce the law; by the grave of brave Had
dock and young Gambrell, 1 repeat the
charge Of boycotting. bulldozing and muir
der, and call on the iuuor traffic to stand
by its record. They have learned that the
secret OF defying law consists in control
ling executives. 1t was John AIorrissey,
the keeper of the great gambling bells in
New York and Saratoga, who was instru-
mental in Introducing the bill against
gambling. He said to the Legislature:
Give us the law and we will take
care of the officers. The law was
of the officers, and after years of bold de-
rather than have the law violated longer,
repealed it. Think of the premise: If
bad men don't obey the law we will re-
peal it.
81 say to-day, if I had the power to pass
a prohibitory law, but had not the power to
elect officers to enforce it, would not pass
it. Here is your prohibitory W. It is a
bipartisan child. It needs sustenance,
support, defense. We ask the Republican
party: Is this your child ? and are answered,
No. The Democratic party dsowns it.
What is it? Non partisan. Midway be-
tween something, it is nothing. 1t needs a
party behind it to sustain it. We want no
more illegitimate statutes.
1.-The liquor traffic having organized to
control the caucuses and conventions, we
are asked: Why don't you say in the old
parties and control them? We have stayed
in them. We nominated st. john, a strong,
brave defender Of Prohibition, agains,
ub0ca Ntfioiol rooor1 hoI Lo,
spoken, TO enforce Prohibition in Kansas
and the Republican party, with 100000 ma
jority in the State, knitted him and elected
the basest tool of the liquor traffic, an out
spoken rum Democrat, who said he would
pardon every convicted liquor dealer. YOU
say that Kansas is long way off. Well
then, there is Judge Maynard, true
Christian Democrat, who was defeated by
Carr, whose every interest was with the
liquor traffic. Then there was Judge
Cooley. whose work on Consultations
Limitations is authority everywhere; with
thousands of Prohibitionists voting for him
he was overwhelmingly defeated by .
| whisky Democrat. Stay in the old party
| What for? We have stayed, and you hav,
| crucified us.
"There is not politician in either of the
old parties who is not dog before the or
SdAAICA NocCo VI eh0 AAIuO4 L1dASs LII
Republicans and Democrats, suppose
will nominate State officers, though why
they should 1 can't understand. Wher
they do, it you will write to the candidate
for Secretary of State, and ask him il
elected be will do all in his power to en-
force the law against selling liquor on Sun.
day, and if he answers it boldly in the
affirmative. will give $500 in gold for the
letter. But the candidate of neither party
would dare squeak. This organized vote
has made it q crime to be honest, and no
an honest Christian man can be elected te
| any office in any OF our large cities. IT he
happens to be nominated, he is sure to be
defeated by his own party.
"This is battle unto death. Can the
old parties meet it? No; their machines
are SO broken. Morrison undertook to re.
deem the pledge of the party to reduce the
but Sam Randall ran IN iron bar into the
cogs, and the machine bursted. In this
State the Republican party promised tc
submit prohibitory amendment, but they
never intended to do it. They soy: We
would, but you Prohibitionists defeated
some Of our candidates. But you had the
votes, and it was Republican in Monroe
| and two in Onondaga and others in othel
| parts of the State who refused to vote
| They could hold caucus on the Veddel
bill, but not on this, and when they at.
tempted to pass the bill tho machine broke
| up.
"What is best? There are two old dogs
| One has q bone. The other wants it. HI
could fight for it, but he stands watching
| thinking the other dog will have to cougl
and drop the bone. So neither of the ole
parties hope to win by a manly fight TO
principle, but depend entirely on the blum
ders of their opponent. ....
! "What political surgery will heel the half
breed and stalwart sores? There are goot
men in the party, but they do not run it
They are in the wagon, but they don
! drive. They say they can give US prohibi
ton, but they are like the Irishman wht
told the American that they were all armed
and they could free Ireland ii they wanted
to, and when asked why they didn't, Wal
answered: The police won't let u.s. S,
the rum police in the old parties won't lie
either of them free our land of this &C.
cursed liquor traffic. We stand facing thi!
necessity to rid our land of this or ,unized
defiant, rebellious liquor traffic, and the ole
parties will not, cannot do it,"
He contrasted the present leadership o
the Republican party-the O'Briens ant
Gradys-with The Stewards and the Sum
mers, and asked: What hope? "The
Democratic party had had grand men, lik
Jackson, Jefferson, Tilden, Seymour, Han
cock; but like a hill of potatoes, the bes